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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
3
Fashion notes insist the girdle remains a staple even as trends shift toward princess gowns. Descriptions highlight deep waist wraps, light blue batiste accents, lace trims, elbow sleeves, and colorful sashes enhancing light gowns and princess silhouette outfits this hot season.
Fashion notes emphasize canary batiste gowns and net frocks dyed to color, with stripes returning after checks. Pannier effects reappear modestly while clinging hip lines and billowing hems dominate. Volle skirts, bolero jackets, velvet scarves, jewel pin sets, and turquoise pearl pins surge, with elaborate hats featuring curved brims and plumes. Elbow sleeves with festivity frills remain in vogue.
The article outlines two coat models with moderated gigot sleeves and slightly square shoulder lines, noting the gigot influence remains strongest but is tempered. It also discusses crin hats for fall and winter, including tarpaulin styles for auto use, and introduces silk walking petticoats with eyelet embroidery and black alpacas with matching borders as fashionable accessories.
Ammonia and turpentine mix to remove paint from fabrics, while a worn broom can be restored by hot water and trimming. Celery lasts longer when wrapped in brown paper and kept cool, then soaked before serving. Fashion notes favor pale blue pink and gray embroidery on sheer gowns with batiate fabric.
A Newport society belle showcases an evening gown in pale green colienne. The dress features white lace ruffles, green velvet ribbons, a decollete waist with silver embroidered green silk, lace sleeves, an embroidered silk band finish, self-tone chiffon velvet girdle, and lace ruffle clusters at seam and skirt foot.
Hat description notes a tan straw hat with a high round crown and wide round brim. The brim edge is rolled for half an inch, the roll covered with straw color. The text emphasizes the hat’s attractive design and straw materials.
Dusty piano keys annoy players and get sticky. Routine dusting helps. keep the lid closed and wipe with a barely damp cloth to remove dirt and stickiness.
White walking petticoats with deep ruffles edged by a fine blind-work scallop offer freedom of movement under short skirts. The trend emphasizes elegance and practicality in a practical wardrobe update.
The left gown features pale green silk crape with a gath ered skirt, plastron corsage under a green satin scarf, lace trims, and green satin peeking at bands and ruches. The brown checked gown shows plaited sides, inserted panels, brown taffeta piping, and ruffles edged in green satin with a bias white satin yoke.
A Briton notes Paris secret police operate in four divisions. Surety pursues and captures criminals. plainclothes monitor lodgings, workers, and hospitals. another branch tracks political plotters and gamblers at meetings while evading suspicion. the fourth guards the president from assassins and nuisances.
A dancer visiting a music hall was scratched by a lion that patted her face through cage bars. She seeks damages of 2000 francs or dollars, with the hearing adjourned to November as defendants travel abroad.
A Bath keeper in Jersey City found condemned Italian murderer Nicola Murdaco in need of a bath after Edward Tapeley, a Negro murderer awaiting execution, claimed the Italian refused confinement unless washed. Despite threats to die first, Murdaco was forcibly bathed by six attendants as his yells echoed through the jail. He had recently attempted to kill himself by twisting his tongue until it bled, with keepers speculating his skin pores might trigger death by his own action if he refused cleansing.
Yellow fever, long seen as an American plague, erupted violently in Gibraltar in 1804 and 1814. Over the next 25 years it caused outbreaks in Spanish cities, Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1855, Wilmington North Carolina in 1862, Savannah Georgia, and several periods of scourge in New Orleans between 1847 and 1868 averaging about 3,500 deaths each. Memphis in 1878-79 nearly depopulated with 5,160 deaths in 1878 and 485 in 1879, while deaths nationwide reached 14,809 in that year.
Archduke Joseph of Austro-Hungary valued a florin earned when a Crey vzot engineer, mistaken for a gardener, toured his gardens at Flume near Buda Pesth. The gift hung in a gold-rimmed tortoise shell frame above his desk, a tale of blunt courtesy and a surprising gratuity. A Japanese poem translated from a tale in Groeul Muyat accompanies the note.
The Boston Globe essay urges plain girls to cultivate amiable emotions and noble desires to reveal beauty of the soul. It argues true beauty comes from a pure heart, not outward features, citing Spencer on the soul shaping the body, and praises Christians who walk the straight road as the finest revelation of inner light.
A New York Evening Mail piece argues that ordinary people can develop a reading habit by using small daily intervals. It suggests ten minutes after lunch, half an hour after work, or brief evening periods to explore Shakespeare, poetry, essays, and history, noting reading grows with habit.
A southern woman argues marriage improves a man by teaching small courtesies and better behavior. She notes a married man stands for others, handles chores, and earns more respect from business men. She recalls a baseball game between married and single men, with the married team prevailing, crediting wives.
Dr. Sellin uncovers a Canaanite burial at Taanach showing a woman surrounded by five children aged 4 to 16. A bronze knife and untouched ornaments including a Astarte figurine suggest a sudden catastrophe before burial. Found jewels and ancient letters mention Istarnasur Aman hasir and Megiddo.
An editorial warns the African elephant faces extinction as ivory hunting drives its decline. It notes the tusks are larger, ivory more valuable, and hunting now largely limited to Asia in Burma forests and certain Indian districts, urging informed public action.
The London Tatler explains a common belief about wine color is mistaken. It notes red wine uses grape skins during fermentation, while white wine uses only grape juice, and that juice from both white and dark grapes is nearly colorless. It adds champagne is made from a very dark grape whose juice remains pale.
The late Cornelius Vanderbilt urged University students to cultivate a daily reading habit. He called reading a brain molder and noted many men who built fortunes did so by daily, devoted reading, likening it to a steady pursuit as valuable as wealth.
A pair of giant women in Dubovo kept a house as children vanished from a village and nearby area. Police found a cellar with clamps and knives, a baby corpse, and a secret society seeking the elixir of life. The women and two jailers died. the pair fled in jailer clothes.
Arnold White, writing in the London Chronicle, lauds concerns over English physique and morale for military service. He contrasts British sailors with healthier German, French, and Russian peers, citing rising hospital stays, cost of sickness, and declining heights and weights in the English army across 1845 to 1900.
A Chambers Journal reflection questions the financial returns of Benjamin Disraeli. It traces his entry to Parliament in 1832, service in the Commons and Lords, and leadership of his party for about fifteen years. It estimates total public office earnings around 250000 dollars, with election outlays possibly 100000 dollars, leaving a rough average income near two thousand dollars per year for nearly half a century of strenuous public service.
The Voice of Humanity argues steam carriages reduce horse cruelty by replacing horse coaches with locomotives. It cites Liverpool and Manchester steam coaches driving off fourteen horse coaches, totaling 168 horses and 252 acres of feed, claiming 1612 people gain subsistence by replacing horses with steam travel and cattle expansion.
The Rochester Post-Express discusses a shift from the old adage early to bed and early to rise. It attributes this to urban nightlife, late hours, and night work. The piece notes theater and city amusements keep people awake past midnight, altering daily routines and the traditional wellness creed.
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